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Demographer at the institute for Social and Economic Research at the University of the West Indies in Mona, Jamaica.

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This study was supported by a research grant from the Hemispheric Migration Project, which was funded jointly by the Center for Immigration Policy and Refugee Assistance at Georgetown University and the Intergovernmental Committee for Migration. The study relies on data which was collected through the Population Mobility and Development Project at the Institute of Social and Economic Research, University of the West Indies (Jamaica). This project was funded by the International Development Research Center of Canada. The study also uses material from the 1979 Jamaica Labor Force Survey, which was made available by the Statistical Institute of Jamaica. Special thanks are extended to the staff of the Statistical Institute for Jamaica, to Professor George Roberts of the University of the West Indies, and to Dr. Patricia R. Pessar of Georgetown University.